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... would stop by the island of Lombok before arriving at our destination Gili Island, famous for not having any motorbikes, cars or police! The journey was a little crammed and extremely hot, so William and myself ascended to the roof of the boat where we got slightly burned and witnessed our near collision with massive ship hauling timber and minerals from Australia to China. These were busy shipping channels and apparently our captain slowed down for no-one!
Once we arrived ...
Bringing it Home in Bali
... pool was the perfect temperature. By lunch time a cocktail making competition had started, I’d like to be able to tell you who had won but surprisingly I don’t recall. I can tell you we had well and truly slipped into full Bali relaxation mode.
One of the things I love about Bali is the amazing food and delicious cocktails. Our days were spent by the pool, wandering out for a few spa treatments and ending the day with ...
Beautiful Bali, it really is an amazing place
... and shops (and got some commission from them) if we went there.
The problem with this was they were expensive and we were not budging on our budget so he got awfully cranky around the 2hour mark (we were with him for 10hours...). This made as even more stubborn.
When we reached the second temple, I had, had enough. They were trying to push us into getting this certain type of sarong (it was 300times more expensive then what we wanted to pay). Then ...
Om Swastiastu! Welcome to Bali!
... and lots of statues. There were also hundreds of coaches - Balinese students all celebrating their graduation with announcements and live music - interesting to see and a happy atmosphere.
Our group returned to Ubud, saying our goodbyes to the newly engaged American couple (this required champagne toasts and cocktails..), and meeting our three new arrivals: a Canadian, an Australian and a German/Malaysian - to start our next adventure in Lombok.
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Von Flores bis Bali
... am naechsten Tag wieder im Boot zum naechsten Tauchspot. Dieser Tauchgang - unser achter - war super und (trotz Riffhai) absolut entspannt. Die Mitttaucher waren cool und die Instructor(in?) aus Slowenien hat ihren Job absolut super gemacht. Highlight waren wieder die Schildkroeten, und ganz besonders eine, die sogar ein Stueck mit uns mit getaucht ist. Wir waren total begeistert!
Nach zwei entspannten Tagen auf Meno (Lesen/Schwimmen/Fisch) sind wir dann wieder zurueck ...
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